This week's edition of Providence Business News includes the inaugural C-Suite Awards special section. In it are profiles of all 14 winners of the program, which is based on the assumption that business leaders need extraordinary teams if they are to achieve extraordinary results.
That truism is borne out by the companies that the C-Suite Awards winners work at. They are all enterprise high-achievers, in growth mode and setting standards for the market to emulate. And none of them could have done it without attracting and developing strong talent in their C-Suites.
Of course, you say, any venture needs talent to be successful. But perhaps this program underscores what so many in the business community have been saying for years. They are desperate for the right talent and have been hard-pressed to find it over the last decade.
Yes, Rhode Island was hit hard by the Great Recession. But the ability to thrive is more robust when you have talent. Talent adapts, learns, innovates and then does it again as conditions change. That's a formula worth emulating. •